# "Welcome to Processing 4" window always launches

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/welcome-to-processing-4-window-always-launches/31865>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/welcome-to-processing-4-window-always-launches/31865 "2021-08-23T19:50:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![LadyK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/ladyk/32/14267_2.png) [@LadyK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/LadyK)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/welcome-to-processing-4-window-always-launches/31865/1 "2021-08-23T19:50:02Z")

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Hello,

First off, congrats on Processing 4! It looks great!

Yet, once the application launches, there is no way to stop the launch of the “Welcome to Processing 4” window, despite the tiny check box on the bottom not being checked (ie, the “Show this message on startup”). I’ve tried it checking the box, as well as unchecking, and rebooting.

Is there a specific line in the Processing preferences file in the ~/Library folder that I can tweak to stop this? I need to stop it for an exhibition and don’t want it showing on the projection.

Thanks in advance for your tips and direction.

~ LadyK

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**Author:** ![LadyK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/ladyk/32/14267_2.png) [@LadyK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/LadyK)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/welcome-to-processing-4-window-always-launches/31865/2 "2021-08-23T20:29:26Z")

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I changed the last 4 lines of the Preferences file to “true”. Despite not having Processing open while I made the changes, renaming the old Preferences file, and saving the modified file as “preferences.txt”, the last line as “true” wouldn’t stick. I did the process just mentioned again, with deleting the last line. Despite that, a small welcome window still appears.

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/welcome-to-processing-4-window-always-launches/31865/3 "2021-08-23T20:29:27Z")

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This topic gave me a hint:

> [@Processing 4. Change editor window colour?](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-change-editor-window-colour/31717/2):
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> Hi @JSGauthier , I’m very much in the same boat. One place to start is to go to the folder where you downloaded Processing, go within the lib folder, open theme.txt and look for editor.bgcolor. The text color should be below it. For reference, I copied my personal theme below. It still needs a lot of work. You’d need to edit the image files that are scattered through-out to get rid of all the bright blues. I had to change the start up splash image (about-1x.png and about-2x.png). I also manual…

I have these in preferences.txt and I no longer see the welcome message:

```auto
welcome.four.beta.seen=false
welcome.four.beta.show=false
welcome.seen=false
welcome.show=false

```

I did the edit with Processing closed.

`:)`

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**Author:** ![LadyK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/ladyk/32/14267_2.png) [@LadyK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/LadyK)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/welcome-to-processing-4-window-always-launches/31865/4 "2021-08-23T20:36:04Z")

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That did it! Thanks so much glv!

🙂

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/welcome-to-processing-4-window-always-launches/31865/5 "2021-08-23T22:00:04Z")

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Hello,

Another edit to the preferences.txt file!

The default:

`editor.window.height.default=600`

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/1/145fb5630e568e2afbe02e96b093992947cb5b3c.png)

Edited:  
`editor.window.height.default=650`

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/4/4bf145e6be08d890e4d88368514ca4b2df5c18ab.png)

It was worth every pixel!

To the folks at home…

The preferences.txt file can be found here:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/8/81b6d61f33f8fa58dadb0a39262deaaa669b81c0.png)

And you can open the folder down at the bottom:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/4/43872077b5da373d08ff25af478830205eff0f41.png)

Close Processing before editing!

You may also want to refresh the folder if it was open while closing Processing… Processing does a _thing_ backing up the file and windows does not refresh this.

`:)`